John Lucas, farmer, was buried at Tingewick in September 1772. A John Lucas of Westbury married Margaret Perkins of Tingewick by licence in February 1734/5 at Tingewick. Margaret Lucas of Tingewick married Richard Chandler of 'Hollingdon', Middlesex by licence at Tingewick in May 1770. There was a Revd. John Lucas 'of the City of Oxford, Clerk' who received land at the Tingewick Inclosure in 1774. He sold the land or died before 1790 as another land map & document refers to it as 'late Lucas'. It seems likely, therefore, that the family's connection with Tingewick ends at this point and that any other references to Lucas are a different family.
The will:
1) confirms 'Wife's joynture'
2) to wife Margaret Lucas: Ten pounds to buy 'mourning' and twenty pounds 'for pocket money', furniture in the 'Best Room' and 'all the Equipage in the Beaufait', copyhold cottage for life (to pass to son John on her death) and land in common fields (to pass to daughter Margaret on her death) & share of linen
3) to daughter Margaret Chandler: one hundred pounds, and a further one hundred pounds on the death of her mother, furniture & share of linen
4) nephew Thomas Lucas: freehold cottage
5) Mary Warwick (no relation?): ten pounds at age 18 or marriage
6) Sarah Lucas, wife of brother Francis: two guineas and two shillings a week for life
7) to son John Lucas: residue of estate & share of linen
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